Level 5’s Time Travelers Confirmed For Nintendo 3DS

A few months ago, Level 5 announced a game titled Time Travelers for a piece of unreleased hardware. This game is now confirmed to be for the Nintendo 3DS.

Time Travelers is a mystery game being developed in collaboration with Jiro Ishii, who penned 428: Fusasareta Shibuya de, a high-profile visual novel published for the Nintendo Wii in Japan. If you’ve heard of it, the anime, Canaan, is based upon a bonus scenario in 428.

Level 5 showed off a trailer for the game at their “Vision 2010” event in Japan, but details were scarce. The trailer showed a schoolgirl standing in the subway. The underground lights go out, and a mysterious man appears, just as a countdown begins. The girl asks, “Why has it become this way?”

In the past, Ishii has only worked on games with anime art or live-action actors. Time Travelers is his first time working with CG. At the game’s reveal, he assured fans that Time Travelers would be heavy on the story, and that it would include some sort of new design that would help the game appeal to a wide variety of people.

Unfortunately, no other details regarding the game were announced. All we have for now is a piece of concept art for the game, revealed months ago in Famitsu magazine, pictured above.

“t would include some sort of new design that would help the game appeal to a wide variety of people.”

I hope that means the game will be more than just a visual novel, increasing its chances of making it over here. I really wanted to try 428: Fusasareta Shibuya de for the PS3; the whole video and stills presentation looked so fascinating and different.

Shadow_Raskolnik

I think I remember hearing somewhere that Level-5 just created or is going to create another branch for NA. If it’s true then we can probably expect to see a good number of their titles released here eventually.

Yusaku_Matsuda70s

Wasn’t that suppose to happen last month or something? I haven’t heard any news about it.

Level-5 was pretty quiet about the announcement, it just popped up on their website without much information. No details about the NA branch have been announced since then though.

gatotsu911

I’m starting to wonder whether the 3DS might have TOO MANY must-have games at launch. Mightn’t they all eat into each other’s sales?

Yusaku_Matsuda70s

Don’t worry. A lot of what was shown aren’t launch games. They’re just games down the pipeline and will probably release months to a year after launch. Heck, some might never even see the light of day. There’s always a few games shown before each system’s launch that end up nowhere.

Joanna

Just hope this game isn’t one of them because it actually sound really interesting!

puchinri

The music on the trailer is lovely. Sounds like something from Joe Hisaishi (especially Spirited Away). I wonder who the composer is.

The trailer made that zombie/skeleton guy look ever eerier too.
I am much too excited for this now.

RupanIII

I just watched the trailer and you’re right – sounds so Hisaishi-esque! He’s one of my favorite composers so hope he’s involved. Even if he’s not tho music’s sounding great.

puchinri

Doesn’t it? That was nice! And I agree~.
I’m excited to hear who the composer is, hoping it’s Hisaishi, but I believe I’ll enjoy whoever it is. (And probably follow their work from here on out.)

RupanIII

Same here, hopefully they reveal who it is soon :D

Joanna

Gah, this has pushed me over the edge. Now I know I shall be picking up a 3DS. Just a matter of when.

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